Beware of fake Adidas track jackets proliferating in the internet esp. eBay and Multiply and your trusted (?!) tiangges. The difference is a world away actually. Oh, btw, a basic backgrounder on the Philippine Track Jackets by Adidas. The Adidas track jackets were made in commemoration for countries that has a rich football tradition. They also made track jackets for Mexico, Bhutan, Cameroon, Guatemala etc...
The Filipino people though big basketball fans nevertheless has a small but ardent community of soccer fans esp. in the provinces. So i guess Adidas made one for the Philippines, although i'm thinking they made one for every country in the world. Adidas also made it clear that it will be a limited edition release of a 100 at least for every country they are going to release said track tops. But to Adidas surprise, it got like more than a thousand reservations on top of the limited release of a hundred or so sold. So they made the reserved orders too. The Adidas track jackets caught up the "sosyal" crowd and the celebrity clique as well, so that mayhem ensued when the reserved jackets arrived last March. Spotted celebs wearing them are Manny Pacquiao and DJ Mo.
The Adidas Philippine flag track jackets features a design resembling a ball at the back of the Philippine jacket that actually looks like a volleyball or a sepak takraw rather than a soccer ball. And that's where the original Adidas track jacket distinguishes itself from the fake ones. The original has a sepak-takraw(slash)volleyball(slash)soccer ball in place of the sun inside the sun rays in the Philippine flag design. The fake ones do not have a PH embroidered logo with the so-called ball too in the right pocket part of the front portion of the track jacket. The fake ones has a lighter color than the original and it is also lighter than the thick fabric of the original..a sloppy job really of copying..but here's the rub, the original are sold for 4.9K while the fakes are for 2.9K..that's a total rip-off..so be clever..before buying something, research...
1 comments:
The so called sepak/volleyball logo in the jacket that you are mentioning is actually a football (soccer) ball. That is how footballs used by team in Europe look like in the early 1900s. You could actually see the same football logo on some European club's insignia.
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